Answer to #1
"Well, you say you've got the blues, you've got holes in both your shoes…yeah, you're feeling alone and confused"
1. Wet Willie - Keep On Smilin'
Answer to #2
"Burning, you keep my whole body yearning"
2. Evelyn King - Shame
Answer to #3
"But if you want to know how I really feel, just get the cameras rolling, get the action going"
3. Andrea True Connection - More, More, More
When Len sampled the bridge to this song for "Steal My Sunshine", and I heard it on the
radio, it bugged the stew out of me for days. I could NOT remember what song it had come from, but knew I knew it...took a couple of weeks for me to remember.
Answer to #4
"So hard to find my way, now that I'm all on my own…I saw you just the other day, my how you have grown"
4. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Answer to #5
"Young and old are doing it, I'm told…just one try, and you too will be sold"
5. Chic - Le Freak
Answer to #6
"Would you believe this man has gone as far as tearing Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars, and he voted for George McGovern for President"
6. Charlie Daniels Band - Uneasy Rider
Answer to #7
"Ain't it good, ain't it right, that you are with me here tonite…music playing, our bodies swaying in time"
7. Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently
Sounds like Neil Diamond, doesn't he?
Answer to #8
"I know it's hard believing the words you've heard before…but darling, you must trust them just once more"
8. David Gates - Goodbye Girl
Answer to #9
"Those were the times we had, sharing the joy that we thought would last"
9. Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
(anybody besides me have a member of the "Pepsi Generation" around them that wanted to argue that this is WILL SMITH's song? Actually, there's a whole bunch of 'recently' remade songs on this quiz)
Answer to #10
"We have a chance to find the sunshine…let's keep on looking for the light"
10. Maureen McGovern - The Morning After
Answer to #11
"To make those rainbows in my mind, when I think of you sometime, and I want to spend some time with you"
11. Grover Washington, Jr. - Just The Two Of Us
Answer to #12
"And now that we've come to the end of our rainbow…there's something I must say out loud"
12. The Commodores - Three Times A Lady
Answer to #13
"'Cause your love is better than any love I know…it's like thunder, lightning…the way you love me is frightening"
13. Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood
Answer to #14
"With you I'm not shy, to show the way I feel…with you I might try, my secrets to reveal"
14. Walter Egan - Magnet And Steel
Answer to #15
"The sergeant cried, "We've got to hang on, boys…we've got to hold this piece of ground"
15. Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods - Billy Don't Be A Hero
Answer to #16
"Daddy please don't, it wasn't his fault, he means so much to me…Daddy, please don't, we're gonna get married…just you wait and see"
16. David Geddes - Run Joey Run
Answer to #17
"How's your new love, are you happy…hope you're doing fine…just to know it means so much to me"
17. Conway Twitty - Hello, Darlin'
Answer to #18
"What is it good for…absolutely nothing"
18. Edwin Starr - War
(Good God, y'all!!)
Answer to #19
"When a man named Al Capone tried to make that town his own…and he called his gang to war, with the forces of the law"
19. Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died
Answer to #20
"Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June, in a Kenworth pulling logs…cabover Pete with a reefer on, and a Jimmy hauling hogs"
20. C.W. McCall - Convoy
Answer to #21
"Way down deep inside, I know that it's all wrong…your eyes keep tempting me, and I never was that strong"
21. The Kendalls - Heaven's Just A Sin Away
Answer to #22
"No-one knows who she is, or what her name is…I don't know where she came from, or what her game is"
22. Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City
Answer to #23
"And if you get hurt (if you get hurt) by the little things I say…I can put that smile back on your face"
23. Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From
Answer to #24
"Let her cry, for she's a lady…let her dream, for she's a child"
24. Skylark - Wildflower
Answer to #25
"Don't know why, I'm surviving every lonely day…when there's got to be no chance for me…my life would end, and it doesn't matter how I cry"
25. Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You
Answer to #26
"I'm a lonely dreamer on a highway, in the skies"
26. B.W. Stephenson - My Maria
Good remake here by Brooks and Dunn too. LOL, this one is a good misheard lyric, for years I thought it
was "I'm a lonely dreamer on a highway in disguise".
Answer to #27
"I got it in the bedroom, and I got it in the hall…I got it in the bathroom and he hung it on the wall"
27. Meri Wilson - Telephone Man
Did you know what the sequel song to this was? It was "Peter the Meter Reader", not nearly
as much fun as the first one.
Answer to #28
"Love to hear percussion"
28. Vickie Sue Robinson - Turn The Beat Around
Another good remake, by Gloria Estefan
Answer to #29
"Oh I, I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room…and I, as I recall it ended much too soon"
29. The Four Seasons - December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)
Answer to #30
"You know that your love is my love, my love is your love, our love is here to stay"
30. Cheryll Lynn - Got To Be Real
Answer to #31
"My name is Michael, I've got a nickel…I've got a nickel, shiny and new"
31. Clint Holmes - Playground In My Mind
Answer to #32
"Do you remember back in old L.A. when everybody drove a Chevrolet…whatever happened to the boy next door - the suntanned, crew-cut all-American male"
32. First Class - Beach Baby
Answer to #33
"I'm here to do whatever I can…be it early morning, late afternoon, or at midnight, it's never too soon"
33. K.C. and the Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man
Answer to #34
"My motto's always been, when it's right, it's right…why wait until the middle of a cold dark night?"
34. Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
Can ANYONE think of the 70's without thinking
about this song? I don't know why I didn't put it on the first quiz. The only song that makes
me think more of the 70's than this one, won't appear on any quiz of mine because I can't stand it, LOL.
Give up? Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life"...that song makes me cringe like fingernails on a chalkboard, even still.
Answer to #35
"And we flock just like birds of a feather, I won't tell no lie…all of the people around us, they say, 'Can they be that close?'"
35. Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Answer to #36
"Lazy day in bed, music in my head…crazy music playing, in the morning light"
36. Pilot - Magic
Answer to #37
"As we lay at midnight's hour, and feel love's hidden power…so strong and bold as life unfolds the mystery to me"
37. Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds - Fallin' In Love
For the longest time, I thought
this was four guys, and not three (as in, Hamilton, Joe, Frank, and Reynolds, LOL)
Answer to #38
"Dance to the music, all night long…everyday people sing a simple song"
38. Sly and the Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)
Got to be one of the best song titles ever!
Answer to #39
"Picket lines and picket signs, don't punish me with brutality"
39. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Answer to #40
"My eyes are not blue…but mine won't leave you, till the sunlight has touched your face"
40. Jessie Coulter - I'm Not Lisa
Answer to #41
"I got it bad, you don't know how bad I got it…you got it easy, you don't know when you've got it good"
41. Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good
To me, this song is always the one that signaled the transition to the 80's.
Answer to #42
"You'll find him anywhere, on a bus, in a bar, in a grocery store. He'll say, "Excuse me, haven't I seen you somewhere before?""
42. The Jaggerz - The Rapper
Answer to #43
"And their love that was more than the clothes that they wore, could be seen in the gleam of their eyes"
43. Jud Strunk - Daisy A Day
I have to admit, I still like this song. Yes, it's
kitschy, but I still like it! :)
Answer to #44
"Goin' in and out of changes, the kind that come around each day…my life has a better meaning, love has kissed me in a beautiful way"
44. The Emotions - Best Of My Love
Answer to #45
"He's the hairy handed gent, who ran amok in Kent…lately he's been overheard in Mayfair"
45. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
Answer to #46
"And God knows, if the world should end, your love is safe with me"
46. Austin Roberts - Rocky
Answer to #47
"Midnight creeps so slowly into hearts of men who need more than they get…daylight deals a bad hand to a woman who has laid too many bets"
47. Earth, Wind and Fire with the Emotions - Boogie Wonderland
Answer to #48
"I'll be your belly dancer, prancer…and you can be my sheik"
48. Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis
Answer to #49
"I must have been through about a million girls…I love 'em and I leave 'em alone"
49. Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around And Fell In Love
Answer to #50
"Maybe she'll find an island, with a shaded tree just like the one in our backyard"
50. Henry Gross - Shannon
Anyone else not realize at first that this song was about a dog and not a person??
Answer to #51
"I don't know how to handle it, it's more than I would dare, yeah…I would have tried to run from it but it reaches everywhere"
51. Chi Coltrane - Thunder and Lightning
Answer to #52
"Feel her skin, feelin' silky smooth, color of cafe au lait…made the savage beast inside roar until he cried, 'More, more, more!'"
52. LaBelle - Lady Marmalade
I like the remake of this one almost as much as the original!
Answer to #53
"I've had some bad times, lived through some sad times…but this time, your hurting won't heal"
53. Kenny Rogers - Lucille
Answer to #54
"There's an open road that leads nowhere, so just make some miles between here and there"
54. ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) - Evil Woman
Answer to #55
"She's from Birmingham…way down in Alabam'…well, she's shakin that thing…boy, she makes me sing"
55. Ram Jam - Black Betty
Okay, so I didn't include the "Bam-a-lam"'s in the lyric quote, LOL. But that
would have been a dead giveaway, no?
Answer to #56
"Just let me know if you wanna go, to that home out on the range…they gotta lotta nice girls"
56. ZZ Top - La Grange
Answer to #57
"When I saw you standing there, I 'bout fell out my chair…and when you moved your mouth to speak, I felt the blood go to my feet"
57. Lobo - I'd Love You To Want Me
Answer to #58
"She was the color of the Indian summer, and we shared the hours without number…until one day when the sky turned dark and the winds grew wild"
58. Jay Ferguson - Thunder Island
(Love the bass line in this song)
Answer to #59
"The wind blew some luck in my direction, I caught it in my hands today"
59. Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right
Answer to #60
"Thought I was out of luck, then ten seconds later…somehow we got stuck in the elevator"
60. Paul Nicholas - Heaven On The Seventh Floor
Answer to #61
"We meet every day at the same cafe, six-thirty I know she'll be there"
61. Billy Paul - Me And Mrs. Jones
Answer to #62
"The sleepin' pill I took was just a waste of time...I couldn't close my eyes 'cause you were on my mind"
62. The 5th Dimension - (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All
Answer to #63
"As the snow flies...on a cold and gray Chicago morning, a poor little baby child is born"
63. Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto
Answer to #64
"I put my faith in the people, but the people let me down...so I turned the other way, and I carry on, anyhow"
64. Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate
Answer to #65
"See the tree, how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been too long it wasn't big"
65. Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
Okay, IS there a sadder song from this era? Hey, if you're having a party and people just won't go home, put this on.
They'll leave, LOL. Or, they'll start crying on your shoulder...hmm, maybe not such a good idea after all.
Answer to #66
"I'm gonna be leaving at the break of dawn...wish you could come, but I don't need no woman tagging along"
66. Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It In A Love Song
Answer to #67
"Take the ribbon from my hair...shake it loose, and let it fall"
67. Sammi Smith - Help Me Make It Through The Night